Progress report: period ending 14 March 2008
Actions and achievements
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Consultation paper ("Scholarly Information in a Digital Age: choices for the University of Melbourne") tabled at Academic Board as part of Vice-Chancellor's report and published via ePrints repository (PDF and Word versions) and in a 'commentable' format on the Information Futures web site
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A call for responses to the consultation paper was issued via Staff News and the Information Futures web site; links from University home page, InsideIS intranet home page and Library home page were updated accordingly
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Article published in Voice (vol 2 number 3): interview with Linda O'Brien, with sidebar on "Information explosion;" article republished in Universitas21 Information Services newsletter
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Scenario planning workshop held postgraduate students; results to be combined with results of previous workshop with Expert Panel and developed into three visions of possible futures, for use in testing proposed strategies for robustness and feasibility (thanks to Richard Palmer for facilitating the workshops)
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Information Futures Commission outline and process presented to Research and Research Training Committee and Teaching and Learning Development Committee. Well received with good engagement and questions. A key concern shared with the team is how we get enough engagement from stakeholders (particularly academics) given all they have on this year. Ways of getting across concise, simple messages and questions are being discussed by the team.
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Very productive meetings held at Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California San Diego and University of California Berkeley, exploring issues related to the work of the Commission
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Scholarly publisher has approached project team re a possible book opportunity.